Michelson may refer to: * Michelson (surname), people with the given name or surname * 27758 Michelson discovered in 1991 *

Michelson (crater) Michelson is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies along the northeastern outer rim of the huge walled plain Hertzsprung, and to the southwest of the crater Kolhörster. This is a heavily eroded crater formation with multiple impacts ...

on the moon * Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment, science *

Michelson interferometer The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the 19/20th-century American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson. Using a beam splitter, a light source is split into two arms. Each of those li ...

, most common configuration for optical interferometry *

Michelson–Morley experiment The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to detect the existence of the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space that was thought to be the carrier of light waves. The experiment was performed between April and July 1887 ...

, a scientific experiment regarding the luminiferous ether. *

Michelson Museum of Art The Michelson Museum of Art is a museum in Marshall, Texas that was founded to house the works of the Latvian- American artist Leo Michelson. Michelson feared that if he donated his works to a large museum that they would largely be placed in sto ...

, Texas, USA *

Mount Michelson (Brooks Range) Mount Michelson is a high peak in the Romanzof Mountains, part of the Brooks Range of northern Alaska in the United States. It is located about north of the highest peak in the range, Mount Isto. In 2015 new measurement show that Mount Michelso ...

, Alaska, USA *

USNS Michelson T-AGS-23 USNS ''Michelson'' (T-AGS-23) was a oceanographic survey ship of the United States Navy. Launched as the SS ''Joliet Victory'' in 1944, Maritime Commission hull number MCV 114, a type VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship, she was named after Albert Abraham Mich ...

, United States Naval ship * Michelson, the domain-specific language for smart contracts in

Tezos Tezos is an open-source blockchain that can execute peer-to-peer transactions and serve as a platform for deploying smart contracts. The native cryptocurrency for the Tezos blockchain is the tez ( ISO 4217: XTZ; sign: ꜩ). The Tezos networ ...

* Michelson, Michigan, an unincorporated community

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